Canada “will always stand up for democracy and against hate.” So reads a statement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Black Ribbon Day, August 23, the anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Observance of the day acknowledges the more than 100 million people who died in Europe because of war, genocide, starvation and other crimes against humanity under both Communism and Nazism.
